You know those meetings that you hear about where the actual community residents come together and discuss their community- the state that it's in, the concerns they have, the possible reasons for the problems, and then the beginning of plans for a resolution?? That's what this is.A panel and then open discussion event taking place in 3rd Ward - but affects all Houstonians, all Texans, and all inhabitants of this thing called America.
If you want to come listen, learn, put in your 2 cents, and get some balance, please make your way over the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center on Live Oak this weekend.
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From their posting:
Krystal Muhammad—CR-Houston Moderator
Tarsha Jackson—Navigating the Pipeline
Reginald Gordon—Youth and the Prison Industrial Complex
Gloria Rubac—Prison Industrial Complex and Abolition
The School to Prison Pipeline--Some Sobering Statistics
Texas spends 2.3 times more per prisoner compared to what the state spends on each public school student.
In Texas, there were 169,460 juvenile arrests in 2007.
Of the 8,247 youths in residential placement in Texas in 2006:
1,980 (24.0 percent) were White, non-Latino.
2,751 (33.4 percent) were Black, non-Latino.
3,486 (42.3 percent) were Latino.
There were 150 youths under age 18 incarcerated in adult correctional facilities in Texas in 2007.
Presentations to be followed by a strategy meeting for advancing the campaign against the School to Prison Pipeline in Houston/Harris County.
Saturday November 21st
2:00 pm
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center
3815 Live Oak
For more information please call 713-261-3558
For the kids!
Bring your kids to help create the World Without Walls Participatory Mural/Banner.
Young and old are invited to take part.
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